Adsense Teaser Revenue?

[espeed]

Wed, March 17 was my first day to run adsense, and I was somewhat motivated by $25.38/day. However, even though page impressions are greater, daily revenue has not approached day one revenues. The CTR is somewhat less one week later, but not enough to make up the difference in revenue.

Were day one revenues a teaser to get me using AdSense? Can someone shed light on this anomaly?

[dwilson]

w/ Adsense anomalies are normal. (Pardon the contradiction.)

My experience was some high EPC's the first couple days, followed by some 1/10 the size. Later I got a few more days of high EPC's.

[Yidaki]

>Were day one revenues a teaser to get me using AdSense?

LOL ... i doubt. Most people (if not all) will wait some more days/weeks until deciding if a programm works or not.

Fluctuations are pretty normal and not always show a pattern. After running AS for some weeks you'll be able to the a (slight) pattern for the different weekdays and weekends - but be always prepared to see movements that look "unusual".

[devildude8989]

Maybe it's becuase the majority of your visitors are return visitors, and got tired of the ads after the first day or two?

[Dan_Norder]

If you just started AdSense you should have read the terms and conditions very recently, in which case you should know that you are not supposed to discuss actual figures...

[Jenstar]

AdSense also tends to get a lot of curiosity clicks any time it is added to a site, before banner blindness sets in. This was especially true in the early days of AdSense when many people hadn't even seen AdSense before, and would click to check out to see exactly what "Ads by Google" were.

[MarkHutch]

Our stats are way up. Sure hope this continues. :)

[espeed]

I didn't post clickthrough rates, and I don't see how Google could prevent an organization from disclosing revenues since some organizations must publicly disclose financial data.

[ChrisKud5]

"since some organizations must publicly disclose financial data. "

That is a VERY VERY good point.

[yump]

I didn't post clickthrough rates, and I don't see how Google could prevent an organization from disclosing revenues since some organizations must publicly disclose financial data.

They can't prevent you. Its what they are then entitled to do as a result of the TOS that should concern you. Plus they are a private not public business, so unless you like delving into company law on disclosure of accounts, imo its better to just run Adsense and let the market decide whether Google pays enough, allows enough disclosure, controls your ad delivery well enough etc. etc.

[expert_21]

"Were day one revenues a teaser to get me using AdSense? Can someone shed light on this anomaly?"

It couldn't be. My first day revenue is below $1. :)

[chatterbug89]

You know, I think it is quite stpuid that they don't want people telling how much they make. Technically, isen't it our right to give out our personal finacial information, and not theres? Oh well...

I wonder I were to go to China, go to a local internet place, run some programs to continualy change my ip, come back to where I normaly live, and see if google finds out who I am....lol...just kidding.

[europeforvisitors]

Technically, isen't it our right to give out our personal finacial information...

Not if you've signed a contract that says you won't reveal such information.